Mori Yoshitaka is the professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). He received BA in Economics, Kyoto University, MA in Media and Communications and PhD in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London. His research interests are postmodern culture, media, art, city and transnationalism. His publications include: The Philosophy in the Streets (2009); Popular Music and Capitalism (2005/2012) and ‘Culture=Politics: The Emergence of New Cultural Forms of Protest in the age of Freeter’ in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2005); ‘New Collectivism, Participation and Politics after the East Japan Great Earthquake’ in World Art (2015).